Till about two years ago, Amar Ghosh, a property dealer in Singur, had his phone lines busy with calls from property websites, big industrialists as well as small-time speculators interested in buying land near Tata Motors' small call factory site.

These days, a query for land in Singur would be a surprise for Ghosh.

Even the websites have stopped updating land price information on the area, he laments. His advertisements for sale of 550 acre in Singur did not evoke a single response in the last two months.

In contrast, Ghosh had brokered sale of 250 acres in the last two years.